He stepped down at the board's invitation. AKA He was fired. (1) They can promulgate the idea that this was a mutual decision, but at the end of the day, anyon

He stepped down at the board's invitation. AKA He was fired. (1) They can promulgate the idea that this was a mutual decision, but at the end of the day, anyone who knows Brendan knows he would never step down voluntarily. Brendan's defining traits are his obstinacy and his ego about technology. Imagine saying only the language that YOU invented can be used for the web. Oh and it's single threaded only, (gee that's the future!) and oh that 3D technology that Microsoft has had working since the early 90s still (WebGL in 2014) doesn't work for anything non-trivial. Mozilla and Brendan Eich parting ways permanently is the best thing that could ever happen to Mozilla. (2) (1) This is a fact. (2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5226309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5226309